In comparison to the book there are a lot of creative liberties, and it feels like they did it due to a time crunch with only so much time to put everything into the movie...only the book was like 100 pages so the creative liberties feel kind of ridiculous.
The acting was superb. The trauma felt from Ellen was very real, along with her father who realized he lost his baby girl when he showed up at the school, regardless if he was drunk, was heartbreaking. Trauma is generational, and they did an amazing job of capturing the essence of what this feels like.
The best examples for Ellen on kindness were all the people who loved her, black and white, it didn't matter, but the hired black people working for her grandmother showed Ellen how to survive trauma on a daily basis when there is no other way of living.
The acting was superb. The trauma felt from Ellen was very real, along with her father who realized he lost his baby girl when he showed up at the school, regardless if he was drunk, was heartbreaking. Trauma is generational, and they did an amazing job of capturing the essence of what this feels like.
The best examples for Ellen on kindness were all the people who loved her, black and white, it didn't matter, but the hired black people working for her grandmother showed Ellen how to survive trauma on a daily basis when there is no other way of living.